Welcome to World History!

Your Interactive Notebook

Gather Information Use Information

Notes from reading & class Diagrams

Questions to guide reading Pictures and cutouts

Lists Creative writing

Outlines Flowcharts

Definitions Timelines

Homework directions Drawings

Use for test review Maps

Examples of Right Page Assignments

• Webs

• Diagrams

• Poems

• Reflections

• Comics

Advertisements

Illustrated Outlines

Sensory Figures

Sensory Figures, cont.

Concept Map

Comic Strips

Venn Diagram

Maintaining the Interactive Notebook

• No ripped out pages or torn corners

• No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes

• Notebook should only be used in Social Studies. (No other classes!)

Make a personal introduction on page 1

World History Ms. Courain

Period # August 2014

My Notebook

Draw pictures, color, add borders,

add a quote, etc. to reflect who you are

Number your pages

2 3

Write this on pages 2 and 3

Gather Information Use Information

Notes from reading & class Diagrams

Questions to guide reading Pictures and cutouts

Lists Creative writing

Outlines Flowcharts

Definitions Timelines

Homework directions Drawings

Use for test review Maps

(Notebook is graded on

how complete, organized,

thoughtful, and creative it is.)

2 3

Make a unit cover on page 4

The Fall of Rome

Look through pages 24 -40

for ideas

4 5

Make the assignment sheet on page 5

UNIT: The Fall of Rome

Look through pages 24 -40

for ideas

4 5

Notebook Assignment Possible

Points

Teacher

Assessment

Example: The Nacirema

Date: Lesson: The Nacirema Picture:Facts: (What suggests a (What would aprimitive culture?) Nacirema person1.___________ look like?)2.___________3.___________

Conclusion: (What did I learn?)

6 7

The need to understand and appreciate other cultures

What we learn from artifacts

How to analyze an artifact

• Why was the object created?

• When and where is it used?

• Who would use the object?

• What does the object tell us about the technology of the people?

• Does the artifact suggest a primitive or advanced society?

An exercise in cultural analysis:Who are the Nacirema?

Horace Miner’s famous study in the

Journal of the American Anthropologist

Instructions• Listen carefully to the article.

• Write down facts in your notebook that suggest the Nacirema are a primitive people (page 6).

• Draw a picture of what you think the Nacirema look like in your notebook (page 7).

• Look on page R26 and R27. Try to identify the continent and a few potential countries world where the Nacirema live.

The problem of cultural bias

The cultures of the artifacts: another look

A primitive people?

An advanced society?

rice paddy

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

What did I learn?

Write a Conclusion on page 6 of your notebook, about the main idea that you learned from the exercise about the Nacirema.